Hooray for the GOP plan to reform taxes

3:31 PM,
Feb. 28, 2014

Written by

Froma Harrop
OPINION

A Republican leader is doing something right ... and good. He is Rep. David Camp of Michigan. Camp has issued a detailed plan for simplifying the tax code. That's his duty as chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax law.

Reforming the 70,000-page abomination that is our tax laws - and making them fairer - has long been a stated goal of both parties. But it is a notoriously unpleasant job because it involves doing away with tax loopholes that have vocal and deep-pocketed supporters.

Many Republicans don't want to touch tax reform now for the same reason they don't want to do ...